[The Telegraph, U.K.]
Ziarul, Romania
Like Poland,
Romania
Must
Tell America
What it Wants!
“The government
of Romania had absolutely no reaction when ‘Putin’s Mace,’
General Yuri Baluyevsky, struck us with a nuclear slap
right in the forehead … which proves that the chair under Defense Minister Melescanu’s ass is more important to him than the American anti-missile
shield …”
By Igor Drag
Translated By Marcel Iliescu
January 23,
2008
Romania
- Ziarul - Original Article (Romanian)
Two days ago, Russia, in the voice
of General Yuri Baluyevsky, the chief of the Russian
General Staff who is also known as “Putin’s mace,”
threatened NATO in general, and the Czech Republic, Poland, and Bulgaria in
particular, with nuclear bombing. Not even 24 hours had passed before NATO responded:
A group of former high-ranking American [and European] military officials argues
that a preemptive attack with nuclear weapons represents an “indispensable” tool
for NATO 
. So what have some
others who have had their “ears pulled” by Putin done?
According to a statement yesterday
by Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, for example, in February Warsaw hopes to reach an agreement with the U.S. about the placement of missile interceptors on Polish
territory as part of the American anti-missile shield. The shield, which in Washington’s view is meant to defend the United States and her European allies against problem states like Iran, has affected Polish relations with Russia, which regards the anti-missile system as a threat to its
national security. So for its own security, Poland’s new center-right government wants closer ties with the United States, and has expressed its wish that in exchange for Warsaw’s cooperation, Washington boost Polish air defenses with medium- and short-range
systems like the Patriot missile.
[Polish Foreign Minister] Sikorski said during a radio program that an agreement could
come at a meeting in Washington between Prime Minister Donald Tusk and U.S. President
George W. Bush next month in Washington, rather than that between Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice and the Polish Foreign Minister on February 1. “I think the decision should
be taken at the highest level, within the Bush-Tusk meeting,” Sikorski said.
And Polish Defense Minister Bogdan Klich recently declared that
Poland won’t cooperate with the U.S. unless Washington helps Warsaw improve its air defenses. I have two motives for listing Poland’s policies. Firstly, they are actually doing something
and, implicitly, action must be taken before there is anything to discuss. My second
motive is that we, being in the same situation as Poland, do nothing, which is something should be discussed.
You can judge now … history will deliver
its verdict of condemnation later. The government of Romania had absolutely no reaction when “Putin’s
Mace” struck us with a nuclear slap right in the forehead. Some might think that
we remain composed because we are such a heroic nation, unlike the Poles, who rushed
of to cry to the Americans ... These descendants of Sobieski
are so faint of heart, you know, we beat the
crap out of them at some point in our history ...
Melescanu, the first soldier in Romania (an allusion to former dictator Nicolas Ceausescu, who was
always the first soldier, the first factory worker, the first
hog farmer, etc.), had just the reaction that the Romanian people wanted to
see …
Looking dignified and with a
piercing look, chest out in the face of the Russian nuclear threat, the Defense
Minister took his bravest and most historic decision: he sent documents received
from the president’s office to the National Anti-corruption Agency and DIICOT (the
Agency for investigating organized crime and terrorism) to begin a probe into eight
ministers, which proves that the chair under his ass is more important to him than
the American anti-missile shield.
“Naaation ... attention! Minister of defense, righhhtttt,
march!”
[Editor’s Note: Author is alluding
to the fact that the defense minister does the prime minister’s bidding rather
than protect the country’s interests].
BY THE SAME AUTHOR:
Ziarul, Romania
NATO, Romania
and
Mushroom
Clouds to Come
http://worldmeets.us/ziarul000001.shtml
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